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0 also known as the principle of equipoise , provides the ethical basis for medical research that involves clinical trial. 1987.

Clinical Equipoise ,

“…….a state of genuine uncertainty on the part of the clinical investigator regarding the comparative therapeutic merits of each arm in a trial. Should the investigator discover or be of the opinion that one treatment is of superior therapeutic merit, he or she is ethically obliged to offer that treatment. “

assigning patients to different treatment arms of a

The term was first used by Benjamin Freedman in

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